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Sequoyah Leader of the Cherokees by Alice Marriott 1956 Landmark Books Vintage Children's Book
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This listing is for the vintage book "Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees" by Alice Marriot
Illustrated by Bob Riger
Landmark Books
Copyright 1956
180 pages
Hardback
Publisher - Random House
Measures about 5 3/4 inches across by about 8 1/2 inches.
"I am an Indian!" shouted the boy.
"Not all Indian," his grandfather reminded him.
"But I don't want to be a white man just because my father was white!" The boy stood with his fists clenched. "I can talk like an Indian and live liked an Indian. I will be a Cherokee all my days."
The boy was Sequoyah, who later became spokesman for the Cherokee and one of the most famous men in America. Today his statue stands in the United States Capitol. And he is honored by the giant trees that bear his name, the stately sequoias of California.
In Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees, Alice Marriott tells of the Indian boy who fought in the War of 1812 and there had his first chance to observe the ways of white men. The thing that fascinated him was their way of sending messages by means of queer signs and symbols on sheets of paper.
If white men could do it for their language, why couldn't he do it for his? With bits of charcoal and sheets of bark, he set to work. For years Sequoyah continued his task and finally became the only man in the world to perfect, singlehanded, a system of writing and reading a language.
This is a former library book so it still has things on it that a library book would have.
There are two pages that were taped back in. The very first page and the very last page.
You can also see the webbing that is inside the spine of the book in these areas.
Pages are still intact.
Covers and edges show signs of wear.
The dust jacket still has the plastic on it from the library. Both show signs of wear.
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